Siphon-bottle.



No. 331 420. PATBNTE" MAR. 10, 19 s.

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SIPHON BOTTLE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 23, 1907.

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D. LANDAU.

SIPHQN BOTTLE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 23,1991.

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ATTORNEY.

PATENTED MAR. 10, 1908.

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SIPHONQBO'ITLE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented March 10, 1908.

App1ication filed. May 23, 1907. *seriai no. 375,323.

To all whom it may concern:

Bev it known that I, Dnwrs LANDAU, a citizen of the United States,residin at San Francisco, in the county of San rancisco and State ofCalifornia, have'invented new and useful Improvements in Siphon-Bottles,of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in siphon bottles, the object ofthe invention being to provide a bottle for eontainingcarbonated liquidswhich will permit of the liquids being bottled at a much lower pressurethan heretofore while not impairing the free flow of the liquid. 1 Thus,with siphon bottles as ordinarily used for containing beer, bottled at,say, fifty pounds pressure, the beer, when dispensed from the siphonbottle, escapes therefrom with such violence as to produce a greatamount of foam, on account of the beer having to pass at a hi h ressurethrough the tube oi the siphon and t irough the openings therefrom. Theresult is that it takes a long time to draw a glass of'beer suiiicientlyOn the other hand, if the pressure is reduced, so as to reduce thequantity of foam caused in drawing the beer, the result is that thepressure is then insufficient" to expel the beer, and the flow ofthe'beer from the siphon bottle stops. The resent construction permitsthe si )hon butt e to be inverted when drawing the cor or other liquid,and the arrangement is such that the pressure of the gas within thesiphon bottle now presses down. upon the top of the li uid so that thepressure of the gas is assiste by the weight of the liquid, and thuseven the very smallest pressure of gas within the siphon suflicient toexpel the liquid thererom. With this construction, therefore, thepressure may now be considerably-rcdueed, and there is no danger of thesiphon bottles bursting, as has not infrequently happened with the high.pressures formerly eniployed. V

. siphon constructed 1n accordance with this invention can be connecteddirect to the' barrel of beer or other liquid, and the beer can betransferred from the barrel to' the siphon without losing'any of the gasor diminishing the gaseous pressure, and the/pressure of the gascontained in the barrel, and

partly transferred to the siphon bottle connectcd therewith, will besuflicient to expel the beer. it results also from this that the beer orother liquid dis cnsed fromsuch siphon bottle will always e fresh.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a broken vertical section ofthe siphon, showing it in position when being charged; Fig. 2 is avertical section of the siphon in use.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates the body of the siphon, and 2 thehead thereof.

In this siphon the long tube ordinarily used, extending from the top ofthe-siphon into close proximity with the bottom, is dispens'ed with, andthe bottle is adapted to be used in.an inverted osition. F or thispurpose the head 2 is ormed with an upward tubular extension 3, which isadapted to be inserted in a socket 4 in a stand 5. When the bottle isinverted and placed in said stand, as shown in Fig. 2, its spout 6 isthen suitably directed to discharge the liquid from the siphon into adrinking glass, or other vessel, placed on the table supporting thestand, and beneath said spout. I preferably use a valve 7 such as thatshown in my United States Patent No. 835,443, dated Nov. 6, 1906, forcontrollers for liquid receptacles which is provided with a lock andregulator as by means of the lock and regulator 8 the valve can belocked on putting away the siphon, so that no gas can esca e therefrom,and the contents Wlll remain fu y char ed. On using the bottle the lockand regu ator are released and the valve can be 0 ened. But it will alsobe understood that hile I have herein shown one form of valve foropening the siphon and permitting the liquid to escape therefrom, myinvention is not limited to the articular valve here shown, as anysuitab e valve may be used for this purpose.

. No change is required in the method of filling the siphon, and the sihon is formed with a filling inlet 9 and is iil ed by means of acharging apparatus 10, such as are shown in my U. S. Patent for chargingapparatus, N 0. 816,985 dated April 3, 1906, and for this purpose alsothe pipe coupling may be employed, for which U. S. Patent was granted tome Feb. 27th, 1906, No. 813,437, so that, as regards the filling of thebottle, it is filled in the ordinary position, standing upon its base,but to. dispense the liquid therefrom, the bottle is inverted.

One-of the most im'portant advantages of the present form of siphon isthat, because the long tube usually found in said bottles is nowdispensed with, and also because of the construction of the bottle, theinterior of the bottle is readily accessible, so that it can be easilycleaned out for further use. This is effected by merely unscrewing thecap 11 or the extension 3, which allows of access to the interior of thebottle. Thus it is no longer necessary that the siphon bottles should besent to a bottling establishment to be refilled, as when used in saloonsfor dispensing beer the itendant can himself easily clean the siphon andrefill from the barrel. In the same way, when used in households, thesiphon can be filled from a barrel of beer and can be readily cleanedbefore each filling.

I claim A bottle having a bod and a head, said head having a spout Witian upwardly directed outlet and a valve controlling said spout, andhaving an upward tubular extension adapted, when the bottle is inverted,to fit in a socket .in a stand, and a cap removably closing saidextension, substantially as described. r

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

DEWIS LANDAU. Witnesses: i

C. L. HOWE, D. B. RICHARDS.

